More than willful blindness. It is evidence of spiritual warfare. It is the evidence of living in Romans 1. The evidence of more and more people daily being given over to their reprobate, wicked, unrighteous minds and the spirit of lawlessness, lies replacing truth, becoming the norm. Time to reach for, open, read — slowly, word by word — study, meditate; think deeply upon what is read, and pray within the Holy Bible, God’s words given to us. Otherwise, nothing but blindness will occur.

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President Trump vs. Iran Denial

 

The threat is real. The willful blindness is the problem.

 

March 26, 2026

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Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine

 

In a letter posted on X, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to the U.S. and claimed the administration “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” With his departure, Kent is the most high-profile figure within the Trump administration to publicly criticize the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. His parting words sound more like the superficial babblings of commentators like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, whose so-called analyses of our policy are based more on superficial opinion than upon historical realities.

It should be noted at the outset of this article that the threat posed by Iran is an ongoing, real-time danger – more than a threat. We have experienced many real attacks by Iran.

A recent document published by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China lists 42 attacks on Americans by Iran between November 1979 and June 2025, causing the deaths of 1229 Americans and the wounding of hundreds more. Although this was not a singular event like the Mexicans crossing the Nueces River in the 1840’s to begin the Mexican-American War or the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, the sheer number of those who lost their lives and the duration in decades of these attacks should convince anyone that Iran had already been inciting and been acting offensively in a war with the U.S.A. for 47 years which we have been downplaying. We have been in a state of denial and, yes, fear of the Iranians for all this time. We are a superpower, and they have been beating the crap out of us.

We should have attacked Iran long before President Trump, yet we have had a paralysis of will regarding Iran. We have been attacked repeatedly by Iran, sometimes losing hundreds of American lives, but we failed to retaliate. I use the term “failed” advisedly because sometimes it is wise to walk away from a fight, but if the enemy persists and grows in influence such that we also began to be attacked by Iran’s “proxies” such as Hezbollah, the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Queda and more recently the Houthis then we are not facing mere skirmishes but are facing an unstated declaration of war from specific enemies. Each of these enemies is governed by a different epicenter of power, but the persistent and dominant leader in the Islamic war against the infidel during our period of history has been Iran.

During the first half of the 20th century, the main Islamic enemy was the Ottoman Empire. They joined Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I as another attempt to legitimize invading Europe, which the Islamic world did and continued trying to do even after they were expelled from Spain in 1492. The Islamists have been at war with the West and with Christendom since the founding of Islam in the 7th century.

However, America, in the grip of a Rodney King mentality which wants to know “why can’t we all just get along?” does not generally teach the long wars of Islam against the West, wars that in different forms and styles have persisted for more than fourteen hundred years. This is no small matter. It is not a matter of Israel drawing us into a nonsensical war instigated by some small aggressions by an unimportant country. Rather, the 47 years of Iran’s aggression is the latest wave of aggression that has emanated from different warlike centers in the Islamic world for more than 1400 years. The moral decline and lack of historical knowledge of our population have led some people – too many people – to question our right to fight and the legitimacy of fighting. After all, don’t we believe in freedom of religion?

The correct understanding is that we believe in freedom of speech, but that does not include incitement to violence, and does not include shouting “Fire!!” in a crowded theater. So, wavering on our attacks or opposing our attacks on Iran as being somehow hypocritical and seeming to backslide on our ideal of freedom of religion would be a misapplication of the freedom of religion concept. Resigning from counterterrorism as Mr. Kent did at the very time when the greatest counter terrorism operation in history is going forward would be a collapse in realpolitik.  Iran is and has been an existential threat to the West and even to parts of the Islamic world. Its fanatical obsession with the enemies of Sharia law has allowed Iran to even be bombing its Sunni Muslim neighbors as being too moderate and too willing to make deals with the “Great Satan.”

There is another historical thread also at work in the resistance to our war with Iran. We have encountered losses or stalemates in so many wars since the end of World War II, wars against powers much weaker militarily than the U.S.A., and thus our confidence has been weakened. Despite our victory in WWII, we could only come to an end of the Korean conflict by fighting to a stalemate in Korea, revealing that after WWII, we had become a paper tiger. Then we fought against Ho Chi Minh to prevent a communist takeover in Vietnam, but we lost that war, were driven out, and Vietnam became a communist country. Some communist teacher colleagues of mine boasted how they vacationed or had their honeymoons in Vietnam after we left that land. After Vietnam, Iraq “lost” to the U.S., but the influence of barbaric Islamic ideology in that country continued to thrive. Also, Iranian Shi’ite ideology increased in that country.

Then, following the horror of 9/11 in NYC, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon, President Bush declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan; yet 20 years later, the same Taliban regained governing control (following 20 years of generals declaring in Congressional hearings that victory would come soon). Over the years, from the end of WWII, the U.S.A. has increasingly appeared to be an ever-weakening superpower. This is the historical context of the Obama/Biden attempts to appease the Iranians with pallets of money and “flexibility” regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment. We had become gutless wonders seeking to bribe our enemy into submission.

The above stalemates and defeats took the wind out of our sails as patriotic Americans. Trump’s appeal to many of us is that he boldly sees that Iran – despite attempts by Dems and Internet pontificators to see our attack on Iran as unlawful – is an instigator for 47 years, an instigator that has been viewed by the eyes of denial and fear. And for those of us who draw on Scripture for comfort and for courage, we remember “you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come…All these are the beginning of birth pains.” (Matthew 24: 6,8)